Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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Interesting Facts
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Armenian
Lao Language
Derived From
Latin
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
720
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1733
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
សូម
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
សូរី
Bye
αντίο (antío)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Greece
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,800.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Italy
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
50,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
256
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
khmer central
German Name
Neugriechisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1500 BC
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Modern Khmer
Language Position
741
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
khm
ISO 639 2/B
gre
khm
ISO 639 3
ell
khm
ISO 639 6
ells
khm
Glottocode
gree1276
khme1253
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating